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Richard Beard - Author

Richard Beard is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: X20, Damascus, The Cartoonist, Dry Bones, and Lazarus is Dead, and three works of non-fiction: Muddied Oafs, How To Beat the Australians and Becoming Drusilla. He is Director of the National Academy of Writing in London.

Featured Books, with extracts, by Richard Beard

Acts of the AssassinsRichard Beard
Sequel to Lazarus is Dead but it easily stands alone. It is a
wonderful piece of speculative fiction, a ‘what if’
story. Here it asks ‘what if the Roman Empire existed today
and Jesus lived now?’ And more than that:...Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2016

Acts of the AssassinsRichard Beard
Sequel to Lazarus is Dead but it easily stands alone. It is a
wonderful piece of speculative fiction, a ‘what if’
story. Here it asks ‘what if the Roman Empire existed today
and Jesus lived now?’ And more than that:...Format: Hardback - Released: 01/01/1970